Deleting a partition.

[in Technicolor®]

My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came with
Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting as a
recovery partition.

Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the
existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and Vista
is D:

I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the data
and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is the
best methodology for doing this?

TIA

 

[Andy]

"in Technicolor®" <nobody@nowhere.org> wrote in message
news:hqcuda$66s$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came with
> Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting as a
> recovery partition.
>
> Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the
> existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and Vista
> is D:
>
> I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the data
> and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is the best
> methodology for doing this?
>
> TIA

1: Open the Start menu.
2: Right-click on "Computer" or "My Computer" button.
3: Select "Manage".
4: Click "Disk Management" in the left nav panel of the Computer Management
window.
5: Right-click the D: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
6: Select "Delete Volume" and authorise.
7: Right-click the C: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
8: Select "Extend Volume" and confirm the default (maximum available) amount
of space to extend by.

Hope this helps

Andy

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

On 4/18/2010 4:24 AM, Andy wrote:
>
>
> "in Technicolor®" <nobody@nowhere.org> wrote in message
> news:hqcuda$66s$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> My desktop computer is an HP that is several years old and it came
>> with Windows Vista. It had Vista on the C: drive and a D: drive acting
>> as a recovery partition.
>>
>> Last year, I joyfully installed Windows 7 Ultimate. I resized the
>> existing drive to accommodate the new OS. Windows 7 is now C: and
>> Vista is D:
>>
>> I'm done with Vista at this point and would like to delete all the
>> data and recover the partition space into Windows 7: c drive. What is
>> the best methodology for doing this?
>>
>> TIA
>
> 1: Open the Start menu.
> 2: Right-click on "Computer" or "My Computer" button.
> 3: Select "Manage".
> 4: Click "Disk Management" in the left nav panel of the Computer
> Management window.
> 5: Right-click the D: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
> 6: Select "Delete Volume" and authorise.
> 7: Right-click the C: drive area in the central, visual drive table.
> 8: Select "Extend Volume" and confirm the default (maximum available)
> amount of space to extend by.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Andy

About the only thing I would add is to make sure you have a valid backup
of your existing C: drive in case something goes drastically wrong, such
as a power glitch or failure during any of the above.